Part 1: Chapter 5

1. Syme also works in the Ministry of Truth, but he works on rewriting and editing the Newspeak dictionary as a philologist in the Research Department. His job is essence is to narrow down language, making overall less words. Winston calls him venomously orthodox, because Syme is dangerously fascinated in the destruction of thought, and has hopes for a future without thought.

2. Newspeak is the language that Party uses in order to make the other Party members less capable of thoughtcrime, by making the dictionary smaller and smaller, and taking away describing words and replacing them with "-er" or "-est". Syme thinks his work on the Newspeak dictionary is art, he loves the destruction of words.

3. A thoughtcrime is when someone makes a statement or does something (possibly by accident) that is against any part of the Party.

4. Oldspeak is basically what we readers speak. It has a lot more words than Newspeak, so there are a lot more ways to express yourself. Oldspeak sounds smarter and is smarter, you could convince and persuade people using Oldspeak because of its large number of different words that sound much more professional than "doubleplusgood." Getting rid of Oldspeak makes independent thought much harder, when you don't have many words to think about.

5. Syme believes that orthodoxy is unconsciousness or not thinking, and that is why he loves to destroy words. By destroying words, you don't need to think much about what you will say because you will only have a few words to choose from.

6. Winston thinks Syme is too intelligent and will be vaporized, and Winston fears that Syme speaks too much of his mind, and the Party does not favour that kind of behaviour. 

7. Parsons is a firm believer in the Party, and though he was sorry for Winston that his son had shot at him with a catapult, he was proud of their keenness and passion for the Spies. Parsons is definitely that man who works many hours and loves his job, and is in a higher rank than many. He's a family man, and I personally  would say he is like Stan Smith of 'American Dad'. Proud to be working for the government. 

8. The statistics on the tele screens will say thing one day, contradict it the next, and nobody in their right mind is to call them on it. For example at one point they said there was an increase in the chocolate ration, but the previous weeks ration was larger than the announced portion. Also, the Party says that Oceania is plentiful and resourceful, when in reality Winston has to specially save razorblades, and others use the same ones for weeks because razor blades are the current item that the Party cannot produce at that time.

9. Facecrime is when your facial expression leads to a belief that you are against something of the Party. It may be rolling your eyes, or sighing at a statement, or maybe being to happy or too sad will set them off.

10. " Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller," is spoke by Syme and shows his true love for cutting down language, and getting rid of independent thought. It's quite creepy to me, his desire for that to be his future.

"We're cutting the language down to the bone," is also told by Syme to Winston, and it's an upsetting idea that such beautiful words will no longer be used and to use words that the Dictionary doesn't accept will be considered abnormal.